Foley, Mark
My Grammar Lab : Advanced level (C1/C2) / MyGrammarLab Mark Foley and Diane Hall. - Harlow : Pearson Longman, 2012. - xi, 410 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. - My Grammar Lab . - Always learning . - Always Learning. .
With key.
Includes index.
''Something new has come that will change the way your students learn, practice and remember grammar. Step 1: take the diagnostic test Step 2: study the grammar in the book and online Step 3: do more practice online Step 4: take the progress test Step 5: need more practice? Go online and do the mobile exercises Step 6: take the exit test to see how much you have learnt With its learning hints and tips, immediate feedback, automatic grading, and grammar tutor videos, this course is ideal for self-study, as well as a grammar reference and practice companion to your English language course. MyGrammarLab Intermediate provides grammar practice for the PET and FCE exams.
Book
Easy-to-understand explanations using Longman Defining Vocabulary - a simple vocabulary of just 2000 words Topic-based modules and natural examples showing grammar in use Information on common errors and how to avoid making them Information on the pronunciation of grammar items Practice exercises for every unit Review sections to consolidate learning Exit tests to check understanding Grammar Check and full glossary of grammar terms for quick grammar reference Online Video presentations of key grammar points
Additional practice for every unit Diagnostic, progress and exit tests to monitor progress Catch-up exercises to ensure the grammar has been learnt Automatic grading and feedback Pronunciation practice on the grammar of spoken English to improve fluency Recorded answers for exercises to give listening practice Grammar practice for key international exams Mobile Download exercises to your mobile phone for practice away from your computer TABLE OF CONTENTS: Unit 1: Art Nouns, possessives, and pronouns Pre-start + Diagnostic Test 1) Nouns 2) Possessive's 3) Possessive with's or of? 4) Personal pronouns 5) Impersonal and indefinite pronouns Review Unit 2: International Organizations Articles, demonstratives and quantifiers Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 6) Articles 7) Fixed common uses 8) Quantifiers and demonstratives Review Unit 3: Landmarks Prepositions Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 9) Prepositions and preposition phrases 10) Prepositions of place and movement 11) Prepositions of time, other meanings Review Unit 4: Law and Order Adjectives and adverbs Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 12) Adjective patterns 13) Groups of adjectives 14) Comparative and superlative adjectives 15) Other comparative patterns 16) Gradable and ungradable adjectives 17) Adverb form and use 18) Adverb position Review Unit 5: The Cinema Tenses Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 19) Auxiliaries and have got 20) Present simple or continuous? 21) Past simple and continuous, used to and would 22) Past perfect simple and continuous 23) Present perfect simple 24) Present perfect continuous 25) State verbs Review Unit 6: Politics and Economics Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 26) Prepositions 27) Decisions, intentions and arrangements 28) Other ways of expressing the future 29) Future in the past Review Unit 7: Sports Modal verbs Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 30) Ability 31) Possibility 32) Speculation and expectation 33) Obligation and necessity 34) Prohibition and criticism 35) Certainty, habits, and willingness 36) Other uses of modals Review Unit 8: The Environment Conditionals, subjunctives, and the 'unreal' past Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 37) If and alternatives; present and future conditions 38) Unlikely, unreal and past conditions 39) I wish and if only 40) Subjunctives and the 'unreal' post Review Unit 9: International Travel and Tourism Word order and verb patterns Pre-Start and Diagnostic Test 41) Verb patterns (1) 42) Verb patterns (2) 43) Introductory there and it 44) Common expressions with there and it 45) Infinitive patterns 46) Verb -ing forms; verb + -ing form or infinitive? Review Unit 10: Clubs and Societies Negative and Question forms Pre-Start and Diagnostic Test 50) Patterns in reported speech 51) Changes in reported speech 52) Reported questions, commands, and requests Review Unit 12: Figures from History Relative, participle and other clauses Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 53) Relative Clauses 54) Pronouns, adverbs and prepositions in relative clauses 55) Participle clauses 56) Infinitive clauses 57) Noun clauses and other noun structures Review Unit 13: Disasters Conjuntions and linking expressions Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 58) Linking sentences and clauses 59) Subordinate clauses (1) time, reason, results, etc. 60) Subordinate clauses (2) contrast and concession 61) Adverbial linking expressions Review Unit 14: Historical Sites The passive Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 62) The passive: form and usage 63) Other passive structures 64) have/get something done Review Unit 15: Technology Word combinations Pre-Start + Diagnostic 65) Dependent prepositions (1) 66) Dependent prepositions (2) 67) Phrasal verbs 68) Common collocations Review Unit 16: Natural History Word formation and words often confused Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 69) Word formation 70) Compound nouns and adjectives 71) Verbs often confused Review Unit 17: Literature The grammar of formal English Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 72) Substitution (1) nouns and noun phrases 73) Substitution (2) verbs and verb phrases 74) Ellipsis 75) Emphasis (1) cleft sentences 76) Emphasis (2) inversion and fronting 77) Organizing information on writing 78) Other text features Review Unit 18: Leisure Activities The grammar of spoken English Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 79) Spoken questions and responses 80) Empathetic forms in speech 81) Adverbs 82) Hypothezing in speech 83) Other spoken features Review Grammar check Appendix 1 -Quick checks Quick check 2 - Modal verbs Quick check 3 - Linking words Appendix 2 - Common preopositional phrases Appendix 3 -Spelling rules Appendix 4 - British and American English Appendix 5 - Word lists 1) Common adverb + adjective collocations 2) Noun + preposition + noun / -ing forms 3) Adjective + prepositions 4) Verb + direct object + preposition + indirect object Appendix 6 - Common multi-word verbs Index Diagnostic test answers Answer key Pronunciation table
9781408299111 (pbk)
English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
English language--Grammar.
My Grammar Lab : Advanced level (C1/C2) / MyGrammarLab Mark Foley and Diane Hall. - Harlow : Pearson Longman, 2012. - xi, 410 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. - My Grammar Lab . - Always learning . - Always Learning. .
With key.
Includes index.
''Something new has come that will change the way your students learn, practice and remember grammar. Step 1: take the diagnostic test Step 2: study the grammar in the book and online Step 3: do more practice online Step 4: take the progress test Step 5: need more practice? Go online and do the mobile exercises Step 6: take the exit test to see how much you have learnt With its learning hints and tips, immediate feedback, automatic grading, and grammar tutor videos, this course is ideal for self-study, as well as a grammar reference and practice companion to your English language course. MyGrammarLab Intermediate provides grammar practice for the PET and FCE exams.
Book
Easy-to-understand explanations using Longman Defining Vocabulary - a simple vocabulary of just 2000 words Topic-based modules and natural examples showing grammar in use Information on common errors and how to avoid making them Information on the pronunciation of grammar items Practice exercises for every unit Review sections to consolidate learning Exit tests to check understanding Grammar Check and full glossary of grammar terms for quick grammar reference Online Video presentations of key grammar points
Additional practice for every unit Diagnostic, progress and exit tests to monitor progress Catch-up exercises to ensure the grammar has been learnt Automatic grading and feedback Pronunciation practice on the grammar of spoken English to improve fluency Recorded answers for exercises to give listening practice Grammar practice for key international exams Mobile Download exercises to your mobile phone for practice away from your computer TABLE OF CONTENTS: Unit 1: Art Nouns, possessives, and pronouns Pre-start + Diagnostic Test 1) Nouns 2) Possessive's 3) Possessive with's or of? 4) Personal pronouns 5) Impersonal and indefinite pronouns Review Unit 2: International Organizations Articles, demonstratives and quantifiers Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 6) Articles 7) Fixed common uses 8) Quantifiers and demonstratives Review Unit 3: Landmarks Prepositions Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 9) Prepositions and preposition phrases 10) Prepositions of place and movement 11) Prepositions of time, other meanings Review Unit 4: Law and Order Adjectives and adverbs Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 12) Adjective patterns 13) Groups of adjectives 14) Comparative and superlative adjectives 15) Other comparative patterns 16) Gradable and ungradable adjectives 17) Adverb form and use 18) Adverb position Review Unit 5: The Cinema Tenses Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 19) Auxiliaries and have got 20) Present simple or continuous? 21) Past simple and continuous, used to and would 22) Past perfect simple and continuous 23) Present perfect simple 24) Present perfect continuous 25) State verbs Review Unit 6: Politics and Economics Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 26) Prepositions 27) Decisions, intentions and arrangements 28) Other ways of expressing the future 29) Future in the past Review Unit 7: Sports Modal verbs Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 30) Ability 31) Possibility 32) Speculation and expectation 33) Obligation and necessity 34) Prohibition and criticism 35) Certainty, habits, and willingness 36) Other uses of modals Review Unit 8: The Environment Conditionals, subjunctives, and the 'unreal' past Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 37) If and alternatives; present and future conditions 38) Unlikely, unreal and past conditions 39) I wish and if only 40) Subjunctives and the 'unreal' post Review Unit 9: International Travel and Tourism Word order and verb patterns Pre-Start and Diagnostic Test 41) Verb patterns (1) 42) Verb patterns (2) 43) Introductory there and it 44) Common expressions with there and it 45) Infinitive patterns 46) Verb -ing forms; verb + -ing form or infinitive? Review Unit 10: Clubs and Societies Negative and Question forms Pre-Start and Diagnostic Test 50) Patterns in reported speech 51) Changes in reported speech 52) Reported questions, commands, and requests Review Unit 12: Figures from History Relative, participle and other clauses Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 53) Relative Clauses 54) Pronouns, adverbs and prepositions in relative clauses 55) Participle clauses 56) Infinitive clauses 57) Noun clauses and other noun structures Review Unit 13: Disasters Conjuntions and linking expressions Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 58) Linking sentences and clauses 59) Subordinate clauses (1) time, reason, results, etc. 60) Subordinate clauses (2) contrast and concession 61) Adverbial linking expressions Review Unit 14: Historical Sites The passive Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 62) The passive: form and usage 63) Other passive structures 64) have/get something done Review Unit 15: Technology Word combinations Pre-Start + Diagnostic 65) Dependent prepositions (1) 66) Dependent prepositions (2) 67) Phrasal verbs 68) Common collocations Review Unit 16: Natural History Word formation and words often confused Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 69) Word formation 70) Compound nouns and adjectives 71) Verbs often confused Review Unit 17: Literature The grammar of formal English Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 72) Substitution (1) nouns and noun phrases 73) Substitution (2) verbs and verb phrases 74) Ellipsis 75) Emphasis (1) cleft sentences 76) Emphasis (2) inversion and fronting 77) Organizing information on writing 78) Other text features Review Unit 18: Leisure Activities The grammar of spoken English Pre-Start + Diagnostic Test 79) Spoken questions and responses 80) Empathetic forms in speech 81) Adverbs 82) Hypothezing in speech 83) Other spoken features Review Grammar check Appendix 1 -Quick checks Quick check 2 - Modal verbs Quick check 3 - Linking words Appendix 2 - Common preopositional phrases Appendix 3 -Spelling rules Appendix 4 - British and American English Appendix 5 - Word lists 1) Common adverb + adjective collocations 2) Noun + preposition + noun / -ing forms 3) Adjective + prepositions 4) Verb + direct object + preposition + indirect object Appendix 6 - Common multi-word verbs Index Diagnostic test answers Answer key Pronunciation table
9781408299111 (pbk)
English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
English language--Grammar.